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Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-05-08, Page 2'J54 4 ..,M0111MO• MrIrrri)111Pc47:15741)..,, • \J) .N.4.$41•Vv ,r4t, 4,)1,4,-‘40/0),;.a) r•-•.7A,nr-s ,•• •-4,Aele.r.-4.•••A . . .......4.,•easeaaelefeeetee'eaareeer "wee . i ' I , . i e , `7,:,'"44'.•=i -=-""--,..'"—r-1-- ' .....tog • . stennibey'a DF•ain. e ' The Grizzly Bear set on a tree, ,„ ' . ' . • And piped hisautiefullaY. - The while the bussing Bumble Bee alloyed tennis with the Jay. The Zebrkeitting by the tn;(42P1 . ' teleingwitla the Moose, WhiletweetY Xaeleerilesseej amp. Played bullfreg with the woe°. - , The Pollywog climbed up the vine ' - 'thee -grew ceeeee thebeee.e.e :ible eing down a piece of twine And sli(me Mouse. ' Was e brown littl" .,, The Fox tossed up a big baseball ;delusion .. The Lion at the bat • Just whacked it 6'er the rea-briek wail, And struck the.Pusay Oat. . At tide the Rats and Dogs did grin ; Tbe Kittens in the inn '-', • • .;).1,4',1.Vi,W=4" in.:444,""414-7,'"''''''''77"•• oheek, n�tremble of the firm mouth. She harlot underitood Mrs: Leonard. "1 think, Pauline, you forget yourself etrange1Y." he said. l' Ton letuet be dream- to uee Ouch worcle." . " I ain not dreelning•"Alhe rePlied. "1 Oliet 4reltlUed Pe you know • °A to. that time ie poet, and oannever return ennuis thst. Paul Leonneer rn ard-it eau vretu,. I am. neither dreaming nor hilted ,wore round to their old course, though with a slight difference. Some people . might have thought and mid that Mrs. Leonard wee laying a trap • for her hothead, she pat Laity Bo much in hie way. Perhaps he thought eo toe; per- 1201 he throttle WM 9 la the Veer' girl to ii second outburet or leaking fury; hut. wa he kept etrietly within the whatever it e, bare. forme of common epartesy. He was polite to her se hie wite'e friend -no more, o less -and d a trap was laid for him, he walked be it aosithiees. Dare. Lennard'e health had been ailing for some time, Not trusting to hie own skill, and feeling Shed the advice of another was more likely to be regarded by her than hie, ber hueband celled in Dr. Green. He . if:. irliiii'"Nrair,Weiroaili:iVirolir,ctult.ww.ail 'eTe. Onee. Bat it Dr. Leonard thought hie wife was going to heed any more, he was mid. taken. She /My refueed to leave Fen. I more: "No," ebe said, in one of her old out. burets, "he had brought her there to, die, and she would die. She told him how it would be, and now it had come true." -ii7e rent by bodily suffering. And through it ali there rose those now half•forgolten words ; " I will live to ouree you yet 1 I will live to aurae you I " And then, in the room, by her eideothove her, ali round here the am Wawa so thrill with that gasping nu. as Leeey. be belied it in the lame, till ' the poor girl felt se if the were etruggiing,in eometerr dream, or else losing her reason altogether. Whether that ory wait a reality or remained a neyetery ; bat whether or no, the wind was rieing, and that rapidly, and the dootor remembring et would be high tide that night, went round by the village to his home. The sky was now. .one °hitting mess of ' "-etielarellValarea narepeeearerelaVieemel . v.- ti tP4 and again by long, keen flashes of forked lightning. The ma wae sounding so loudly theta be beard it even in the. beers of Feu. more; Rind tie he went Up the little hill to his own bowie he heard it plainer OM, and. the wind beat great dashes of rain in hie faces every few seoonds. "A bad night for the fishermen," he -gips BIOLULING TH* NXVI70 TO B. M .- now the Queen Consort Beard of Sing lialakanale li)elith. Mn_ _ y women and Ines hod been busily eungegetd:in decdrating the pelmet for Hie Ile° -Y 1/ re"01-4", "Yu " Honoluln letter, to the San anoino mute. They bad been aeeembled for several days and worked.under the Queen'e personal super. violet' . naariy on the morning of,danuaref ?Elth a the wiling bends began their labor of love. Boon the Queen appeared at the top the wide marble staircase of thet main .hall, olad in a kaloku, the native dreee. Slowly and stately she joined the workers, oontribusing eadlee and salutatione to all. .Stan. ding among the native workers and - 44211M11.1/427.4Z* tr4,141 IIMSr.f-ItiaZZLLMM:21Z7VP:"17MTArn - 0- .. . . there, ehe was a picture of majesty, but while every inch a queen, she seemed to take an. almost Ohildish delight in the of she gratification with whioh king.would greet her work. . " He will be so plefteed," she eaid. The Hon. Semnel Parker entered and announced to Her Majesty that the Chad- • • " eefeev .... , - ' ; . , •of . 'AAA 114r1a4 ... - 4- • , Li , .. , • ' . 4` , Otir ••e-1, -- - . ... . • . 41)401,1911415141)14, A%) now, and I see more than either of you fancy. "Whatever you are," wild he-" what- ever you see, I hope you have enough gentlewoman left in you to refrain from such talk in the presence of a viaitor, and that visitor a young girl." • Never had hie wife seen him eo roueed " liks.C.04t,k4WWEarainVIZZUVigulFtritii.inii; .... '• , 'thoughts '4% e v L, _ •, . .• ,,,k -. =au nenniooy w ea up. and the baleful light in her eyes fleshed up stronger every instant. • . " I know how you cherish the young girl -you need not tell me," she cried. " was as young ae she wee when you married me for my money, and now you tell me to bear my wrongs in silence, because the shameless creature who ie . • .•• _ , lir • , , —de—. CHA.PTER II. 1111 . , i • e , e •:a -'-'•' .„. ze• ,....•,?4 iiiV .. ,,, - I I. ,. - e- AN •14:;'A .r.,. 4 e , oh e .,. $ • , I . V, •N • ,t 0,' • -4. 0., .. - . e , ' ,) ' • . ,. J" 5' e e i • %.., ta 4 I. • ee ,, P. •, e . 4vote kl • ? , - -, " • . ;t1 . ' • '' i ••• . .. 4 , h• ,t`' , ' -4' - '' , ',E. C ,' . • , ,. g ,' -ieee k e e ' . . , . , ., ,.. . ''... . ... ww: • • • • , • oe.' .. 1 . • :. e, - ...: , ' - ,•:- 4 , !I . e.-:- . r • • e , • -., , , .,),. . •e- •--------e--------"----n-You . ,0 -• I, 1 , , , ,.• , , t, ' •have • . • __.„ ,, ' , ik , r. e ' r ' AL: , 1 ,. e t . • . .teuddants '."- Those bitty words, tormenting in Mrs. an owe passed her them. If anyone was objected to by failed to remind him enough to please herself, ehe did. In she first glow the young dome thought to the brought him. Hie I ample enough for money had never been it had her taunts ' driven him wild. One very near driving him An acquaintanoe, oprung up between , Mr. Leigh, a brokeredowneman world, living on a made atlases still luxuries for himself for hie child, had ' out of the way. He of lite in aided, and hie days qoietly in what be had been was he was passed unnoticed. Hie daughter, Letty, had "a full share of —and-ratheremovi-thanealull-sharenf-the- that long hid been Lenn.ard's breast,. have lipe, they often passed of her numerous whims Dr°. Lennerd, the never thai she waiewealthy and please herself and warmth of hie love, had never once' • given riches - his wife had private income was them both. and. her, touched by him ; if would probably . have morning they went wild as it was more or lese dose, had the Leighe and them. of . the very scanty aiinuity,• by -having toe supply as well as necessities come to Fenmore to be had played the ganee lost. He oame to end this lonely spot where unknown, and what . _ a motherlese girl, the faults usual to one, young end wild and and therein lay her °yea. She saw had grown cold and unbend to Letty, mil. speeches, and odd mTo her he was . , ..•4. to be young " She laughed a ringing, scornful laugh, and .poor Letty, still watching her like one fascinated, shivered. " Yon are planning to marry her for love, euppose, when you have buried me gaiesliy," ehe continued; "but I will live to mine von vet -I will live to aurae yeei 1 " Shtt of io e rose ifp io a empespassn, . a her eyea gleanfivg, her cheeks burning. A beautiful fiend she looked. With ashram ory, Letty turned from the room and from the house, flying with swift feet down the road and over the elands to her homeenever etopping to. get her hat, but off just as she was, her dark earls tossed about by the wind, and her imp still ringing with that vengeful cry: . -d Mrs. Lennard eed and watt:oiled the girlish figure in de headlong flight, and when ebe could see. it no logger ebe sunk back on her seat and began to ory quietly. A new fear of her husband stirred in her. , "I might have watched them and thwarted shem," she was thinking as she eat there; "but I should not have spoken • • )1 out. Oh, dear! I wish I had kept quiet i Dr. Lennard stood quite still, his hand Tooling on the bookcase, hie eyes scanning the volumes within it and no one ' could have jeld from hie grave, still face the iheraintnd-bitteenriesethat --roecrurIn-hl z soul; cries for peaoe, for love, tor sympathy, help, everything he had. not, nor might hope to have. . Presently he missed over to, where hie wife eat, and touohed her on thearm. laho raised her eyes to his face with a start, and kept them there, awed into gaietness by -theefixedelook-it-wore. Fr,r, 1 0,10,.1,..--Ingr a g -.19,!)11.1.,116111,121.,,.1.rd61.14711., closed, and a little of the pain that was eating hie lite out flashed up into hie face" He knew that any remonstrance of hie would only fix her in her resolve but in hie . round shat day he called at the Leigh's cottage and asked Letty to go up and talk lo her," for," as he frankly mid,"eif you do not succeed, it is hopeless. My wishes she in would not regard the matter at all." betty promised to use her beet influence; and ' that evening, when the doolor came home, be found them both seated by the lire in the drawing -room, busy talking. Letty's dark face was alt aglow with earnest eloquence, and Pauline lay back in her chair and listened with a quiet smile. Pauline had been very illof late., woree even than the dootor himself knew of ; her alwaye slight form was painfully thin, and her large, soft eyes were painfully brilliant. With all her ill -health the twist and curl never left her hair, and now it jay over the orimeon cushion in a silken tangle orlight. She was very fair, very beautiful, more womanly than ever he had eeen her. even in the first sparkle of youth and health; and the great, tender lovein his soul yearned toward her as he looked down on her.plaoid, delicate face. It spoke in hie voice, in the touoh of his hand ; it ehone from out the depths of his dark eye& It changed the 'nterne-graveehlielninerminetherfandelever-ef" old time. Oh, blind heart 1 oh, cruel band! to fling baok such a holy offering. " You are better to -night, Pauline ? " said he. " Yee, I am - greatly better," ehe said.' "1 am not going to die. I walked down alone; and see, my hand is cooler. Oki, , eryou-must-eee4-am-beteere5- 7vlfrlIg1(47,11II,I,M.,11-1,-,-“Klmo,.., •- • eV- A r fa, be a good many out ere this." He had gained hie own gate as he Spoke, and he turned round to look at the , angry see. , The great billows, rising, high, dashed furiously on the sande add ' against the rooks, their °rests shivering into foamy whiteness. Far ons -se far se the eye oould pierce through the thick darkness_ the waste of waters epread, heaving and falling like a living thing -a terrible eight -while over all played the sickly glare ofHage the lightning. Dr. Lennard turned hastily from it and, turning, stumbled over something in the path. Steeping, be saw that it was a women. lyingprone on hie doorstep, her light dress (dinging closely to her, her long hair trailing over the ground. He pushed the door open, and lifting her in his arme, waded her into the lighted hall, thinking with pity that it was some poor night•wanderer who had loot her Way, and perhaps fallen from ex- haustion As' the light tell fully on the figure, the doctor staggered under his burden, and a deadly °hill Mole over him. He recognized the pale silk dram, the flossy golden hair. No need to raise the ell% white hto know that it was hie wife. The banging, to of the hall door, and the litekeieief'theTamplititheriebugli Witaliiiileed- in, roused him, and he carried her up to her own room, and, laying her on the bed, rang for Judith. The old woman 061110, and her fresh face blanched suddenly at the sight that met her eyes. • Mrs. Lennard lay on the bed, her halide tightly clinched, her facie rigid, with her wet-hair-faliingln-ternished-massee-round it. Her pale silk dreas was stained with sand and water, and of her oboes one wae missing ,altogether, while the other had plainly been up peat the ankle in a sand puddle, and standing by the bedside, more wornand haggard than the old woman had ever seen him, even in these last miserable years, was Dr. Lennard, looking quietly but sternly down on the Waage figure of hie wife. • But he did not stand long thus. No stranger oonld have gone about restoring consciousness more promptly and coolly, and when, after a weary time, life oame beck to the still face, and the small hand e trembled and unolosed, like a stranger he left the room, and sent the boy for Dr. Green. Mre. Lennard opened her eyes on Judith'e rugged face as it was bent over her pillow, and, like one waking from a troubled dream, she raised her head to look round on the familiar objeets, as though to oonvirtee her- self of the reality of the preeent. But even that exertion wee too much; and as her head touched the pillow again, shegave a low, eharp ory, and with the ory came • a rush of blood, staining her parehed lips, and making her white face appear still more ghaetly : .and Judith, °hailed into pity, went hastily out, and called the doctor. When he came his own fate was as white and eet as the dying fame before him, for he saw that she was dying. When the blood had ceased to well out, and Pauline was se well as she might ever be, the dootor was stealing eoftly from . the room to sealf his messenger bad returned, but ehe put ons her hand and stayed him. "Don't go," she whispered • " I am 1 dying. Don't go -don't 1" The few broken words made the ominous red tide rise again, and Dr. Lennard, bend- ing over •her, and Meeting the terefi d 1 e . besedobing eyed of this woman he had loved so passionately, felt his own scorch with an agony tee deep for, tears. Hour after hour he etayed by her, exert. ing all his skill, but in vain, to -stay the ebbing life; and when skill felled, soothin g her with fond worde, echoes of the glad • music 01 past days, and tender tonnes eloquent of love, of forgivenesa, too, to poor, dying Pauline. . Dr Green oame, but he could do nothingworth • ; she was past all ecirthly aid, and in the • ghostly gray twilight of the early mornin ahcedied. ' g With the last up -flashing of her lite Pauline had forced strength to tell her hue. ways-thie last time moat of ail, and to beg of him to forgive her. A reeking vision of what this fair woman might have been to him rose up as he b t 'tome en over her dying bed, mixed with a Yearning for the justice and the love recent bad come, thougn eo late; and so he kieeed her and held her closer in hie arms, tna and with his forgiveness and bis love sought her die be peace: Bat in peace she not die. In vain he bade her put her iri her Saviour, and fix her hopee on His tendernees and meroy ; but her heart trails wee oloeed and hardcand the holy worde fell land heedless team. In vain the dootor looked and spoke as if all °reel past wee a dream, and ahe wee fondly loved young wife 'of those early days; she could not die in peace, and ' did nos. There wee a want and a crying in her dying eyee terrible to eee ; and dock was under the burden of an unuttered h3" that she struggled into eternity. (To be Continued. accidentally ...., • other ,th. AA A•••••,. .4, -M., - *rgirr,eilf t le intelligenee work -ceased, and the at - readinthe faoe of Mr. Parker the es newe he e oome to break. " Ah I my Sing bee prepared a eurpriee her me and.1 ehall not be outdone. Why d oa stop your isbor ? Begin again, and Y we will finieh before Hie Majesty arrivee," _said the Queen., and she began with her own hand _s to entwine some maili meshee . ha of the rioh drapery Bils, YouPdajesty,said r. Parker, ; " the n on the Charleston are at helf- mast, end I am afgeid something has 'hare pe,nied.'' How sad 1 They met be mourning for some one who has died aboard,answered " the Qum. lentf " the Ra wedir lag is at hall -maid also,, Y. 1 Your .omy king should grieve with them Majesty "Ah should anyone be dead. The attendants noderetood the worst; but Kepiolani refused to understand, and etill urged them to oomplete their deoora. sloe. All were silent and bowed their heads, ,lf:''' but Mr. Parker broke the silence, and in a ealm, sympathetic voice announced to the Queen 1oe . he d e sib of the Hing. The transit. eion from the simplioity of le I 4ehght to theparoxyanas of grief was seden that 1, - • . • .. \•,,,,..) - ,, , • ='- - ' • • .. ,-, • , • ' • ' • . • . , . . • . . aweetnese. She was shy, and lovable withal, blemish in Mo. Lennard's that her husband, who grave to her, could ing kindly at her quaint ways of the ohild•woan. ehellinleetlainteknud-wenkt l's Men • to the floor had not loving armseupported . herShe gave a ehriek, and began wailing in a mournful and moat pitiful manner. Others added their oriee of wailing to the . (tad and bitter moaning of the Qaeeniand the scene brought tears to the eyes. of the .. . strongest presentMrParker wiped the Inare-frem-hie-eYeerand-reising-the-Que e - _-saways__gentle-_and__forbesring_he__ne.ver- . . . frowned on her, henevei ohilled her by a ' covert eneer, and all this the lesions woman e. , , fancied he did to herself. Her own brilliant blonde beauty was fading rapidly,• while • day by day, and week by week, the soft , flush fired and deepened onLetty's round oheek, and the clear, steady light in her gray eyes brightened For .monthe now Dr. Lennard had gone . hie way ; never unkind, always cold ; he did not upbraid, but. he could not caress the woman who had dashed his oup with bitten. Be did not love her, she herself had killed hie love, but he oonld never forget the unleavened joy of the first few weeks_ of his married life when he had loved , , her 'wholly, intensely, with the gathered-, up strength of hie manhood. He never ., • , ceased.. to remember often with a sigh, the .radiant 'vision of girlish loveliness that had passed through the dim stone hall by hie 4, .. ,.e , . • aide that fair.lune morning on whioh he had brought horde hie bride. Everyone but hie wife was saying how ill the doolor looked ; everyone , piled him, and .was considerate to him. . . Pauline's jealous nature, ever craving to be firet, had sickened over hie neighborly ' attentions to 'Letty Leigh for day and days, and Shia morning the torrent buret. ee• ' - • • The breakfast hour had paned in sullen eilence,On Psuline's part, and quiet indif- • ferenoe on the doctor's. He had of used to these domestic storm, and plainly saw • , , that one was gathering. Breakfast over, he vise to, go out, feeling thankful that , . this on had only threatened, and as he . , . , reached the door a olear voice, that both husband and wife recognized as Letty's, . broke into a laugh in the hall. . A moment later, and Letty Leigh, still emiling, stood in the door -way, with a merry " Good.morning." The dootor, after returning her greeting, and placing a chair .. for her, and preoeeded to select a volume, . . . while he asked what had been amusing her - so." , . " I have just been walking on the ehore," . , ,' ehe replied, " and before I knew? a 'pet of . wind came by, ,and mY poor hat went danoing over the waves.' ehould be more eareful of your .• hat, Miss Letty, on Bo windy a morning," , said the dootor, smilingly. "1 know, but 1 ween't thinking of it just I • then," said Letty, "and I couldn't but laugh when I caw it bobbing about ' like a wild thing. But the tide was ooming strongly, enf, , • and I got my poor old hat again, and • that is what brought me herb at this hour. " Mies Leigh cannot have breakfasted .datice, yet, Pauline, ' said 'the doctor, glancing at hie wife, but she did not heed him. , thinie.h His pale face flashed at her want of courtesy, and Letty's countenance was a most embarrassed orimeon se ehe rose to own, go.' to "Thank you, Dr. Lennard," geld she, " I dare not stay. My papa will want me little , to get hie breaktiet ready and my hat must be fit to put on now, for it wee drying sorry while I talked to Judith." . and The girl paused, out of breath, her long believed , cipeeoh not serving to lessen her confueion, haps the dootor'e keen eye had gleamed -from her of face to his wife more than once as ehe for made it. grown "Von must not put on a damp hat, Mies Letty," said the dootor,' or v?e shall yon taking cold, and then what would parent part say? Better he should wait for his would breekfast." , childish '; 41 Speak the truth at once," broke in Mrs. girl, Lennard, huskily, het bine eyes flemieg. her , . "Say what yea would say, if any hurt Lennard's . mune to your dealing." had . , With hia hand on the. door itir the Wok. efiernefai case, the dootor stood and looked- at her in . anlezement ; and then, OA the fall meaning the d of her pansionate wore and angry looks him; dawned npon him, he turned and looked at against Letty. Her clear gray eyes, widely opened, least were fixedly wonderingly on hie wife'e ; therefore but there wso no flashing oolor in her fresh gratefully - . " As soon as Kr. Sharp oan draw up the necessary doonments, "-. said he, " every farthing of your money, which you know se well se I do has never been touched by me, as it is, shall be legally settled upon your eelf, se that I never can touch it. • Let that content you. Yon have sunk lower in my esteem than I thought any woman, mnoh lees my own wife, ever could sink. In the future let there be another eoene like the one of this morning, and we . two shell be parted se wholly as the law oan let us. Remembeathis, Mrs. Lennard, and know that I never break my Word." Be wart gone, with those cruelly steady eyesethat cruelly firm face, and as the door closed upon him, hie wife fell to the floor in a faint. So Judith found her when she came in to take away the breakfast things, and her tending wait none of the gentlest, her muttered words none of the kindest, as she•set about restoring her to consciousness The dootor kept his word ; every farthing of his wife'fortune was settled upon her before the month was out. In the early days of spring a weakly ailing little eon was born, but meeting no, mother -welcome, the ' little etraager Soon faded away, and a tiny grave in the ohiirche yard was the only visible token of his brief stay on earth. In the father's heart a yearning void,was left, and a tender memory of the baby fingers that had thrilled his palm ere they stiffened at the touch ,of death, and passed away from him forever. Perhaps if the ohild had lived the mother might havagrown'a better, and eo a happier woman, and, perhaps, she might not ; for she mimed to have no love for the wee blociemn, no care for it, even while it wee hers to cherish, and Shat brief term of motherhood passed, and left her still the same °tinkered; evil -hearted, disoontented woman she had been before. Something in her 'husband's manner kept her from any open railing. She felt she dare not try him now as she had tried him in those early days before the love in hie heart had dried up. She praotised instead a aeries of petty 'they oontradietione, as contemptible as they were spiteful; and yet not without their °Sing. Did ehe ' diecover he pertionlarly wanted a certain thing done, that Was the very thing she put forth all her power to prevent being adoomplished. Did etre think he wished her to take care of herself, she went out in all weathare. Was he indiffer- she fussed and nursed herself into a fever. •healthy ,.them Never heeding, or rather never seeming thankful for even a surface calm. the But that he was not deetined to enjoy long, the end was nearer than he could know. - 'Urged by some wayward Jitney of her Mrs. Lennard suddenly took upon he' through be repentant for the inault offered to Letty Leigh. She walked over to the lonely olear cottage one day while her husband was away from Fenmore, and told her nevi ehe'wes for her rash, seneelese words ; no the simple gin rl, kindly and true hoed. her, and freely forgave them, per. turned all the readier that she was conseioneand steps a little sedret and harmless admiration ear the grave handsome „,dnofor, bbat had LI" fainteet up, unknown to herself, at the very but mire of her innocent Young heart. inside I. was nothing to bring it bltieh to the rale face. No true silfe, knowing it, but lamp. have seen that it was a natural ' liking only ; but the frightened yonr knowing little of women, and lees of Ammer own heart, had been hurried by Mrs. Bummer words to the ocinelneion that ebe fanoiee. :bean, guilty of,eordo .horrible iii14 pome, Lei folly that ilia been plain to all. Ever alter, When she had ohanoed to meet but doctor in her walke, Letty had avoided and and he, thinking it a eign of her anger she him, had let it pass as one of eh° A consequentee of his wife's ill wotk ; heart, was Mrs. Lennard'e olive -branch her h000pted, and gradtially things the Har husband took the little white hand in his, and stroked it tenderly, and though the cold damp of its palm chilled him, he gave no sign. Her eyes brightened with a little of their old fire ae she looked actress to where Letty sat in the shadow, her head leaning against the mantel. . , "Letty oarne over early in she afternoon to dee me," she said," -and from then till now her one ory has been that I must go to Devonshire; or Italy, or France, or some. 'where -anywhere I think would please her, so that it molar enough from Fenmore." Piety half Binned as she met the doctor's approving gismo. . "It is not what would please me," ' she said. "1* is what Dootor Green rays you 'require. I should not like to see you going away from Fenmore only for that." • Too weak to be angry, Mrs.Lennard grew peevish. "1 °hall not leave Fenmore," she esid. "1 am well enough to go to Lapland, if it it the oold you dread. I shall stay here." "Well, well, then, Pauline, you Eihall," • said She dootor, soothingly. " You know yourself a change would do you good. But if you took it unwillingly, perhaps half the good would be lost." Letty stayed ratherlite that night -later than ehe usually did or oared to do then, bus Mrs. Lennard had been loath to part with her, and when she put on her hat and oloak, and the dootor rose to see her home, his wife seemed as if she would have stayed him jest at the lad; but she said nothing, and he lent. Their ehorteetroad was across the sande; and to -night,. with the moon shining, and the eee calm and ae smooth as sheeted eil- ver, it was the pleasantest also. A still night, with a sultry breeze blowing from the land that scarcely fanned the oheek ae it went by. Letty was shy and quiet ; 'his thoughts busy with the past, the doctor was in no talking mood, and the greater part of ' the walk was a000mplished in °Hence. Once, so left the sea behind them. and turned into the narrow, shadowy lane that led to Letty's home, she thought the heard a erg, half pep, half sob, ae from. some injured animal, and she stopped and listened. Dr. Lennard asked what it wen:mind she told him. • e i It bathe wind that ie Hein " he'd g, ecti . " Seethe deeds that ' arebanking up over there 1 We shall have a deem' ,te.night.•• Still the girl stood and listened, her oheek blanching with a terror to wide), id • . and • long•drawn breath broke the etillness. This time the dootor heard it, too; perhaps because he had been listening for it. That was the reason he gave to Letty. e It is nothing bat the sough of the wind these old trees " said he. " You thenkfulness need not tremble so, oh'ild. The night 'is so that that we ehould eee if any living °reale ure was near about." Very comforting to the prsatioal dootor, tole* doubt', but not at all so to Laity. She oonld went the rest of the way with her head trust baok over her shoulder every few to see 11 anything followed, her bnrshe strained to • the utmost to oatoh the on repetition of that gaeping sound, none came, and the doctor left her safe the her own door, end laughed at her the face as it showed in the rlighi of the June - . she n Yon will never do," said he," to live need lite by the sea, it the rising of the it storm and the breathing of the longing wind can fill yon with euperstitions I tholight you wore Wieer, fdiee i» - .. , , .. ' • Letty tried to answer hie light worde, probably ehe oonld not ;- and when he wasone, she set down on the aide of hergbed, that could not keep from bursting into tears. women Dore pain' eeemed to lie heaVy on her a dim foreboding of evil shadowed ealoon mound; and under ite sinister inflaence will girl ehivered and moaned as though in eupported her to her aparimente , • . ' . , .. Atinder doThere nsedoiem a remarkable • e senai: Orange difference in the observance of Sunday in Chicago and Toronto, not to the oredit of • the Western Metropolis. . There the street oars run from early morn till early next morn, the saloons throw their doors wide open ta their thirsty patrons; the seoond- hand shops, pawnshops and cigar Mores are in full Wait ; suburbap trains rneh in all directions carrying thousends to out - lying parks and enburbe, where German bands discourse sweet music and where the followers of Terpsichore trip the light fantastic , to their heart's content, • and drink lager and Rhine Wine se fast as it oan be handed out• • to them by the aotive waiters. The theatres too, almost without exoeption, look forward to bigger business at their Sunday matineee than at those Of even Saturday, and almost the entire popula• tion seem to give themselves up to a .day of pleasure, if not dissipation. Trite, •the Sabbath was not intended as a day in which to do penenoe, or ae a cloy in 'whioh one ehould shut • himself up and mope indoors, but we draw the line at spending a Sunday afternoon in witnessing the gyrations of a female Spanish dander in a variety ,theatre. In all, some twelve theatres, varlet y halls and mamma give matinee° each Sunday afternoon during the season and they are exceedingly well patronized. If Chicago keeps on it Will soon earn the title of the Modern Sodm a ' OompuleoryliVoting . • Oawe o Times : i g There ie a bill before the egislatare to oomnel every • • e duly qualified citizen to vote ilit elections under proper n ' ate • . sins and peaItwe for negleot ao so do. e exerame of the eleotive franchise is the highest duty of American citizenship. No good citizen bee a right to negleot to ' vote and leave t th he seleotion of officers in e hands of the roughe and 'rowdies and that oleos of people, who never negleot to cum t p mole neglect as comes from die gad that ne one offers ao pay- . ein for their votes. It Amerioan loath , • Is are preserving, intelligent and' re's'; eats- ble citizens eh Id •ou do their share of the work, and if they are too indolent or too indifferent to do the' I h ir I u y t e law ehould Oompel them to 1 ' do I • Pei ag it compels to Witty of the publioe, . Scotch Ascendancy,: Toronto Empire: It has been said with show of reason, that Sootohmen Canticle ' th d ' rale in e omain • of politica. The Australian convent' bro ht len has aleo tdg out the prominence of men of that ionality at the Antipodes, ienoh impor- laid delegates se Hon. William MoIllillan, I reaserer of Nevi Sduth Wales ; Hon: anus Munro, Premier of Victoria ;lion. Duncan • D Gilhee, ex•Premier of th oolong; r. Cookburn, ex•Premier of Sh • Sir AIM- , Thomas MoIlwraith, at miens- , and Hon. Adye D I f oug se, o Tasmania, being Bohm en. The eteamer Milwatikee etruck on the Li me Kilns, near Amherstburg, yesterda•y morning. She is now lying at Ane Ib in a Inky condition, bra th0 s her fit"' pump g ' Rev. Dr. G. W. B th o well of Brooklyn, wallowed ' day ie a emeell cork th ., hich lodged in hie I f h e IllYoielae h - b e i ronohns, a WO ear unable to reenh fatal result ia feared. -The theatrical m anager is known by e company he keeps. The n E 0 . ew arl Grenville 'a . I' of 19. 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